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 It's surprising that you are on Nostr yet are in favor of state control over reproduction at the expense of both the women who must bear the pregnancies, with a higher risk of personal death and complications, and at the expense of the children born to such horrendous circumstances.

Everybody has a right to life but nobody has the right to use someone else's body without consent. 

Are you in favor of the state forcing the donation of blood? Forcing the donation of extra kidneys? Should we have a national registry of eligible blood types to draft people into the service of saving a fellow human in need despite the greater risk of death or infection to the donor?

Or should risking our personal lives be voluntary if we understand and are able to handle the consequences? 

What about contraceptives? Should we ban them? If it's murder to abort a fertilized egg, is it also murder to prevent fertilization that would otherwise occur?

In countries and states where abortion is illegal, doctors are scared to perform life saving abortions for fear of being prosecuted. This leads to adult women dying unnecessarily. Women who suffer natural miscarriages are also prosecuted and imprisoned where abortion is illegal when they're already suffering from the miscarriage itself.

Get the state out of our personal lives. Having children, going through 9 months of pregnancy and giving birth at a higher risk to ones personal health, is a very personal decision that should be up to the people directly involved and not bureaucrats.